Ariel Waldman

@arielwaldman.com

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Antarctic Explorer + Filmmaker. 📺 Creator + host of LIFE UNEARTHED on PBS 🚀 NatGeo Explorer + NASA advisor 🔬 Often filming tardigrades 🔗 https://arielwaldman.com

A video of fog going across the sky.
Video of Ariel revealing her camera parks featured in the museum.
A framed Lichtenstein-like portrait of a woman saying not yours, never was. The temple arm of her sunglasses connects to a different point then where the hinge is.
Ariel taking a selfie in Antarctica with her tent behind her.
Trailer for LIFE UNEARTHED
Clip from LIFE UNEARTHED
Clip with captions from LIFE UNEARTHED
A TV screen of the PBS streaming app showing LIFE UNEARTHED at number 10.
Alie Ward and Ariel Waldman with headphones and mics laughing during a Zoom interview for Ologies.
Two dogs watching bison on TV
A lineup of 12 PBS shows in the streaming app; number 5 under Featured Shows is Life Unearthed with Ariel Waldman which has been circled in red.
Trailer for Life Unearthed episode 4
Tardigrade cake at premiere screening of LIFE UNEARTHED at American Museum of Natural History in NYC! Ariel and Rose posing in front of a 3 foot large tardigrade cake.
Trailer for Life Unearthed on PBS
Trailer for LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman on PBS.
Integrity coming down
Alexis and Ariel taking a selfie in the recording studio.
On air illuminated sign
Ariel with a macro probe lens in the prairies. Life Unearthed with Ariel Waldman. Watch now on PBS, PBS app, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime Video.
Ariel on stage/set with Adam Savage and Bill Nye. "I produced and hosted a show on Adam Savage's Tested. And performed on a live StarTalk show with Bill Nye."
Ariel with a macro probe lens in Antarctica. "Hey, I'm Ariel Waldman. Meet the host of the new PBS series: Life Unearthed with Ariel Waldman".
Image of Ariel in Antarctica with her camera and a blurb about the series "Life Unearthed with Ariel Waldman"
A photo of Ariel in a yellow shirt that says “I’m speaking at Wildscreen Science In Storytelling”.
Curiosity, Creativity, and Courage Girls in Icy Fjords, Inspiring Girls Expeditions Tuition-FREE expeditions for high school girls* Exploring Alaska Landscapes with Science and Art Applications Open Now Deadline Feb 9
Ariel's BeReal showing her sitting in front of a computer screen with a tardigrade video playing.
A compilation of videos from Ariel about moons.
Photo of the book OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM AND TV by Ariel Waldman with foreword from astronaut Mae Jemison
A screenshot of an Instagram post with Ariel asking “how did you choose 25 moons out of nearly 1,000?”
"I am always fascinated by areas of science that reveal things we may never be able to experience for ourselves, whether due to distance, orders of magnitude, or perception." —Ariel Waldman Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV
Ariel in a red dress inside a planetarium talking to camera. The caption says "it rotates chaotically, wobbling as it moves through space."
Illustration of person watering plants on a spaceship for Chapter 4: Loneliness - How will we cope with long-term isolation in space?
Ariel peering over an inside illustrated spread of OUT THERE. The illustration is of astronauts tending to mushrooms on Mars with a chapter 7 title of "Living On Mars: Will the red planet be ripe for farms?"
Ariel leaning against a large irregular boulder in Antarctica
Ariel posing in front of the cyclotron room at Berkeley Lab
A penguin skeleton embedded in snow
The view out the windshield from a Pisten Bully looking at snow going across a landscape
Looking through a C130 porthole to see the show covered mountains of Antarctica.
Photo of Ariel as a kid on Halloween laying down with her candy haul laid out on top of her. Caption on top reads “pic of u as a kid that gives off the same vibe as u now”
Photo posted by Will Templeton of a couple dozen winterover crew at McMurdo Station in 1964. Most of them have freshly shaved mohawks.
A protest sign that reads GTFO RUSS VOUGHT
Horses at a ranch in Wyoming at sunset
Ariel looking back wearing headphones in front of a TV showing an orchestra
Ariel's photo of Rai Weiss speaking on stage at Beyond The Cradle at MIT in 2018. The title of his talk was "Exploration of the universe with gravitational waves."
A selfie of the SCIENCE AROUND AND FIND OUT shirt.
A BeReal of Ariel and people eating at outdoor tables at the Google X campus.
A screenshot of a instagram post that reads "sometimes when I'm really sad I take what I call a "millennial walk" which is where I play mgmt, Matt and Kim etc and pretend like I'm a college new grad in 2009-14 thats walking around Brooklyn"
The cover of the book OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM AND TV by Ariel Waldman
A dog looks out a cracked window with the “tell your dog I said hi” sticker on it
A hand holding a Polaroid photo of Ariel in front of a stack of National Geographic magazines.
An orange "road work ahead" sign on a street meridian where the word road has been crossed out and replaced with the word hard.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/22/upshot/nsf-grants-trump-cuts.html Canceled funding from in-progress grants STEM education -$656 mil. Math, physics, chem. -$61 mil. Geosciences -$53 mil. Computer science -$47 mil. Social sciences -$46 mil. Technology -$38 mil. Engineering -$36 mil. Biology -$28 mil. The chart shows the total cut in intended award funding for terminated grants grouped by N.S.F. directorate after excluding money that has already been spent. Source: USA Spending and Grant Watch But in contrast with the canceled grants, the slowdown in issuing new grants is broader, representing an across-the-board hit to American science. Decline in new grant funding in 2025 Math, physics, chem. -$289 mil. STEM education -$223 mil. Biology -$156 mil. Engineering -$127 mil. Geosciences -$101 mil. Computer science -$85 mil. Technology -$18 mil. Social sciences -$16 mil. Source: N.S.F.
A poster for Antarctica Unearthed showing Ariel walking alongside the edge of a massive glacier. The poster has award badges announcing the two silver awards from The Telly Awards.
Ariel holding up her book “Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV” with a Foreword from astronaut Mae Jemison and a blurb from Mythbusters’ Adam Savage.
Ariel standing in a prairie of green grass while two bison walk behind her.
A bar chart asking “How long until Elon Musk establishes “Muskville” on Mars?”. The largest bar says 20 years, followed by in a distant future, never, over my dead body, and last as 10 years.
Ariel takes a selfie in a red jacket in front of the NSF building. The NSF logo is adorned on the building behind her.
Ariel seen being a dork by attempting to imitate a naturally made ice sculpture at a sea ice pressure ridge. The ice and her are curving over to the side.